Artículos, reflexiones y opiniones de profesores sobre inglese

Some of the difficulties encountered by the Spanish-speaking English learners From the pedagogical point of view, question formation in the English language poses a great challenge to Spanish speakers. Linguistically, this could be attributed to the first language (L1) grammar in the learner’s head, Spanish grammar in this case, which is totally different in structure from English grammar. As a language teacher, one should not remain indiffere...

Experience I was born in Kenya (1976) and then I went to Italy (2004) to study and work, and shortly after I ended up in Spain (2008), for the same reason, where I live and work till today. As a Kenyan born I am fluent in both Kiswahili and English, the two official languages in Kenya, and for the second languages, I am equally fluent in Italian and Spanish as well. I would like to cite my experience in learning Italian back in Kenya (1999-2003)...

First of all you have to make sure to get to know your english students, their weaknesses and strenghts and if possible, to remember their names.I like to know about them,their hobbies, their expectations...so I can fullfill them all. Once this is done, it's essential to establish the goals of the course, the way of evaluation as well as homework and necessary things to remember so everything's clear since the beginning. We cannot forget a...

Oggi vogliamo affrontare un argomento che ci sta particolarmente a cuore: la conversazione. Sì, perchè per quanto possa essere buono, a livello teorico, il vostro livello di inglese, siamo onesti: nella vita quotidiana, quanto spesso ci capita di mettere in pratica la nostra conoscenza della lingua?  In altre parole, quante occasioni abbiamo per intavolare con qualcuno una conversazione in inglese? Probabilmente la risposta sarà la stessa ...